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Comment by Qanre

Cragskaar paths around with the other Farahlite Giants (roughly 48, 19). He's killable with just two people, though, like the other giants, he splits into smaller Cragskaar fragments, so you'll want to clear the area to avoid unnecessary adds.

Comment by Awbee

Solod him as a lvl 70 felguard warlock. Just take your time so you dont take aggro from your felguard (but be ready with soulshatter) and keep the dps low so you dont get too many of his adds at the same time. When an add spawns (every 25% I think), put your felguard on it long enough to apply dots and then put him back on Cragskaar. The add should die before it leaves your felguard. Just remember to use health funnel liberally. If your felguard gets low pop a trinket for super health funnel.

Comment by couzen

Solod him as a dark pact warlock, just ran, he's faster then you, but when he comes close he performs a knockback that takes you far away from him for a while. Took 2 min.

The easy way. Just remember to have all dots running on him all the time.

Comment by nastynor

Soloed as Shadowpriest, just fear each time an add spawn and dot-mindblast him. Run away from the elite but apply a dot first so he wont get out of combat.

Comment by scortch

Disregard...

Comment by Bighat

For balance druids he isn't soloable (not for me that is). He is immune to roots but not cyclone, if someone wanna try solo anyway

Comment by Radbod

This can be done as a Warlock without kiting with any spec. Enslave the named elite demon at Forge Base Gehenna and use it to tank Crag. Leave the fire attack on autocast but save the AoE ability for when he spawns an add. If you let the demon engauge and fire off two attacks he should maintain aggro the entire fight and you can unload on Crag.

Comment by eidolon

Solo'd as a 70 Fire Mage with Blazing Speed talent. I was unable to freeze or otherwise slow him down, however, he moves fairly slow and I actually ended up kiting him South into and about halfway through the Stormspire dome.

Comment by cyin

Solo'ed as a 70 resto shaman, don't even need to kite him, just put down earth ele let him tank, I did pull aggro a few times but went right back to the ele. The ele tanked the adds aswell, ran out of the 2 minute timer and popped down the fire ell to finishs crag and the adds off, pretty easy, takes about 2 minutes 30 seconds.

Comment by Gantock

Awbee is right I just soloed him with my 69 demon lock not very hard just pace yourself.

Comment by light

Solo 'ed him as a lvl 70 combat specced rogue. DPS him down and blind/gouge - use bandages, put in evasion, blade flurry and adrenalin rush and dps him down. Just in case keep a hp pot ready.

Comment by Ugrak

Solo'd him as a 70 feral druid in bear form. The trick was to take out the adds as soon as they spawned and then go back to the boss.

He has a very nasty knockback that almost had me over the edge once or twice. Knockbacks far enough for you finish a heal before he gets to you if your quick.

Comment by Foraga

Solo'd as a balance Druid. Took a while, but just used Insect swarm, moonfire, and travel form to get away from him. Kited him south along the path. Rejuv'd when needed. wasn't hard

Comment by swotam

Solo'd this as a 70 Marks Hunter. Just wait for him to path as close to the road as you can, then use Cheetah and run him west on the road. By the time you get to the bridge you should have him down. Serpent sting and Multi for dmg, rank 1 arcane to keep him mad, and run him through a snake trap in the beginning just to hurt him a little extra. You can also put your pet on him after a bit, since he will be so mad at you the pet won't pull him off.

Comment by Massacher

lol i tried enslaving the named at Forge Base Gehenna but that didn't go so well. so then i tried void and that was a no go either. then i enslaved the named at Forge Base Oblivion and i did it! woot!! locks ftw haha!!

Comment by Mblast

Soloed as a 70 holy paladin, judged wisdom and hacked away while using avenging wrath. Not that much harder than the previous quest, just make sure to keep your health up in case of a punt.

Comment by Nola

Soloable as a 70 protection warrior. Thunderclap demo shout, sunder and shield slam. When the adds spawn, refresh demo and thunderclap so it hits them too and just dps it down.

Keep shield block up and this guy and his adds will hit you for next to nothing.

Comment by ljones72

Soloable with L68 Tankadin, use BoW, JoL and SoL, use your stuns/invulnerability wisely (bandages) and always kill adds first (put JoL and SoL on them too).

Comment by Qweertyy

Easily soloable as a Level 70 Elemental Shaman. Just pop down a Searing Totem and use Earth Elemental as tank. Then just keep spamming your usual Lightning Bolts and Chain Lightnings at the right time as well as using your other cooldowns (Elemental Mastery, Natures Swiftness?) and he'll be dead in less then a minute with more than 50% health and 50% mana. Adds are taken care of easily after the big dude is dead by the way. :)

Comment by Leicad

Did just like Radbod..Took to Forge:Gehenna and enslaved Silroth..He is a great tank with almost(or more) hp the Crag....Just Aoe when the adds spawns. The fight took me 30 sec :D

Comment by d4fF

hardest part of this quest if you want to solo it is to avoid the other giants when you pull.

that said.. that's dead easy.. atleast for a hunter.

kited him on the road.. easy. serpent and arcaneshot.

Comment by oraro

As a balance druid, it is possible to solo, but difficult. He is actually immune to roots AND cyclone. I killed him (as a 34/027 moonkin), though I blew Nature's Swiftness, Innervate, and a Healing Pot in order to do it. I also had to shift out twice to heal. I accidentally pulled an elite add nearby, so I killed him and died about a second later, but it would've been possible to live if I were smart. Still finished the quest though.

Comment by haxxor1337

I solo'd him with a 58 feral druid, i just dps'd him to death and killed the spawns after. he is really easy if you have healing.

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Comment by frazig

Well this one is easy to kite for a mage too. Its just about keep ice lancing and blink when he gets to close. He doesnt deal much dmg and will bash u when he hits u so u dont even need to blink

Comment by haoa

Soloed as hunter lvl69. It's a run, but no problem

Comment by mgibson713

Solo'ed as 70 Shadow Priest with ease, fear when adds come, reapply VE and SW:P whenever they run low, mind blast and mind flay when shield isnt up

Comment by Sniff

Easy with a Arcane/Fire Mage. Just pull him to the road and kite him there with spamming fireblast and ice lance.The adds will just run after you but they leave after a few sec.

Comment by Nemil

Soloed as a 70 affliction warlock. It was unbelievably easy. Positioned myself on the rocks, cast unstable affliction on the guy and started running towards the path that encircles the dome, applying my instant dots occasionally. He hit me from behind twice during the run and catapulted - did almost no damage. The whole run took about a minute, never went under 98% hp. While elaborate tactics are sweet this one is a no-brainer and works like a charm.

Comment by Tirith

Really, really easy as a balance druid. Started up with popping one +dmg-trinket and 2 Starfires. Then I went Moonfire+Insect Swarm and Travel Form to get away from the giant. All you have to do is to reapeat the Moonfire+Insect Swarm while you are running wherever you please in Travel Form.

Dont loose aggro, cast a new Moonfire when your present Moonfire-dot has almost ticked out The same with Insect Swarm.

Good luck :)

Comment by diskenth

I tried cyin's method, and it worked.

My 70 resto shammy laid down the Elemental Totems, and hit up Cragskaar with melee. Although the adds killed me post-battle, I managed to loot the quest item from Cragskaar's body.

I didn't want to deal with other adds in the area, so I pulled it up a ramp nearby from 47,21 to 48,22 which leads to Ruins of Farahlon.

Comment by Krowntown

Solo'd this as a 70 prot warrior. Keep shield block up always, dont worry about dps'n him silly, take your time, thunderclap and demoralizing shout so you take even less damage, sunders here and there, and then the other little guys. easy as pie. oh yea, try and put your back to something so you dont get smacked into another giant.

Comment by r00flr00fl

Soloed as a 70 rogue. Simply kite him by using Gouge, getting distance and Deadly Throw so he wont get out of combat and run away, also did some normal throws while having sprint on, so I had enough space. Kited him to the guards at Stormspire and finished him with having evasion on, pretty easy.

Comment by erikalikesfire

Solo'd as a feral druid. I saw him as I was finishing off another giant, clearing to fight him, and with 1k mana left, figured I'd just attack him to see if he was stunnable, then reset and get ready to take him on for real. In fact, he is pounceable, maimable, and bashable, and it was going so well I just finished him off. The trick of stunning him at 75/50/25% so he doesn't split works on him too; I found him no harder than the regular giants. Just think of the knockback as time to get energy/enrage/heal.

Comment by blupache

There is an area around 48,17 where you're at the bottom of a hill with a large crystal outcrop on the other side. I found him patrolling past there & pulled him in. Using the crystal/hill as a brace I was uninterrupted for the 6 or 7 minutes it took me to kill him (resto shammies: we've never killed anything quickly ;) ).

He's definitely soloable as a resto shammie, and hence probably also as a holy pally. No elementals used - just grind him into the ground, take out the adds as they pop & out heal him. I did use a mana pot for safety's sake, but I didn't really need it (finished on ~3500 mana).

Comment by Michie

Soloed as a spriest (70). He doesn't hit hard, just kite him back towards Stormspire. Only has roughly 25khps, adds can be feared away if they aggro. Blackout also worked on him.

Comment by Agamemnon

Soloed him as a feral druid (lvl70) found him very easy. Opened in catform, applied usual Prowl, Shred and Rip and went into Bear for rest of the fight. He doesn't hit hard at all, just keep Demo on him and reapply once add spawns. I charged him midair as soon as he knocked me back, killed first 2 adds as they spawned and ignored 3rd one until after Cragskaar was killed. No heals were needed. Simple way of making 12g and a primastic shard :D

Bear has 21k AC and 12k HP

Comment by Steve22

coords are 48;17, easy for a hunter.

Comment by Tomlittle

Soloed as a rogue, 2,5 k health left without using any health pots. Easy.

Comment by xytek

Well unlike the other, he is NOT fearable. So there goes my strat.. :(

Comment by Darkrift

Soloed as a resto shaman. didn't even use earth or fire elemental. just start moving back when he gets close to the 75, 50, 25 % mark so you don't aggro the spawns.

Comment by alcy

This neck is one of the best pre-raid neck's available for Enhancement Shamans.

Comment by lengthycobra

Love being demon lock lol. Hes not immune to the felguards charge, used amply curse, curse of doom. then corrup and immplate as the felguard tanked him. uses health funnel when needed, as the other giants, had the felg kill the adds, re dotted the big man and had COD finish him off.

Comment by Azshade

Soloed as Kara epiced rogue (combat swords). If you're a fresh 70 or so, you'll probably want a healer :P.He does that thing all rock giants do and spawn little guys. His are non elite, but have decent HP.

Comment by dalailama

Easily solo'd this as feral druid in tank gear. Ignored shardlings just focused on boss.Didn't have to heal once and dropped perhaps 2-3k HP total. Imp LotP helped ofc. :>

Comment by Vicullum

Solo'd as a 69 frost mage. I got in one good frost bolt to pull, then ran along the road spamming icelance behind me. I kited him all the way to Stormspire, taking off around 50% of his health in the process, than iceblocked near the guards. They finished him off for me and I looted the quest item.

Comment by piratmonkey

solo'd as 70 BM hunter, just let my pet tank while i hit burned him down as fast as possible, didnt bother kiting around, adds weren't really a problem, i killed them afterwards cause they started bugging medon't have any raid gear or anything, pretty easy fight

Comment by Gape

Can be also soloed by combat rogue, just use AR, Evasion, try to have him stunned at 75%, 50%, 25% (I had one add due to cooldown on kidney). I had to use one health potion tho.

Comment by Wesyth

Just a minor tip, it seems that he walks slower as he gets smaller, for example he could easily outrun me at full strength, but not after his last "breakdown" (at 25%) so I just nuked him down to 25% as a frost mage, then simply ran while ice lancing on the run to get the final 25%.

Comment by Rainfree

Just fly at 48.20 and he will walk right under you

Comment by vaad

Confirmed.

48.1 22.5, to be exact. Facing towards eco-dome farfield, I was able to pull him up the slope towards the road and nuke him uninterrupted as a BM hunter.

Comment by Koulimo

Just soloed this with 70lvl rogue, not that hard :)

Comment by Atrath

Soloed with Shadow Priest: when 2 adds spawn use Shadowfiend and Fade so fiend tanks them. When he dies just fear adds and finish Cragskaar.

Comment by cocainne

Soloed with 70 resto druid...8100 hp / 9040 mana...some boomkin gear but basicly you have to overheal...use barkskin as much as you can and entangle one of the adds

Comment by Mpstark

Pretty easy solo as a marks spec'd Hunter (10/47/4) with blue gear. By making make sure that Mend Pet is always cast and unloading as much as possible without drawing aggro from my pet, I was able to take this guy down without wiping. I tried to interrupt like was suggested, but could not get the timings right. Make sure that you don't aggro any of the patting giants around him! They can cause... complications.

Couldn't imagine it would be much harder on any other class.

Comment by indisposed

Soloed by a 70 shadow priest with 7k hp - just dot him and run and when the adds spawn they won't aggro to you. Used VE, shadowfiend and a health pot.

Comment by Helius

I just soloed this as a balance druid, lvl 70 with epic pvp gear. I used trees, and just nuked him with moonfire and wrath, kept the adds for last, since they're easy enough. No problem, didnt have to use potions or anything.I can confirm the coordinates by the way, he may be hard to find, since he looks excactly like all the others, but just keep an eye out for him, and you hsould be fine.

Comment by Noob666

As Gape pointed out earlier, the absolute essential is to stun just before 75%, 50 % and 25%. If you do that and damage him through 75, 50 and 25%, then YOU WON'T GET ANY ADDS AT ALL. Naturally, that makes it dramatically easier.

Comment by Avalonia

Unlike the other giants he is immune to both fear and slow. However, he is still easily kitable by an affliction based warlock because he punts you around. Just use the punt to your advantage and he is easily soloable.

Comment by Bellae

Soloable as hunter who newly hit 70. Just move back your pet along with you when you feel you might get aggro from nearby Giants. Good luck.

Regarding the ads, just use freezing trap and fd as soon as you can!

Comment by MenchiTide

Soloed as 70 Frost spec Mage. Found him and cleared two of the other ElitesSent in Ele, ran max range and tossed hate a little with him.Once Ele died, Cold Snap, summon Ele again. Ice block and let him chase Ele a bit, then just nuke him down.Fun challenge for the Magey ones of us =]

Comment by twotoesin

You can actually easily pull just this one guy without worrying about all the others. If you stand just off the road to the north but still up on the hill @ 48,21 (if your ranged of course) and pull just this one guy back up to the safty of the road.

Comment by Sniperkit10

I also solo'd him with my feral druid. I did the same thing as I did with the other giant non-named elites. I had to heal once which was okay. All in all, it went smoothly. At the end, when he spawned his last shardling, he kicked me back so far, that the little bugger just stood on the outside and didn't know who to attack since I wasn't within good aggro range. Note: Only had to kill one elite pat to clear

Note: Ignore the adds till he's dead, but if you are worried about them, just use Intimidating Shout to get them off you for a few moments.

Comment by moenbase

After reading the comments that it was possible to sol it, I decided to give it a try on my lvl 70 Protection Warrior. (just with quest-gear. No full epic or heroic-gear)It really helps to interupt his add-spawns at 75, 50, 25%. I only interupted the one at 75% (awful timing).Before the battle started I used a Lesser Ward of Shielding and a Elixir of Superior Defense.Also used a health pot fairly early on in the battle.Didn't need a 2nd one. Downed him and his adds with about 15% life left.Get Shield Block up all the time. He isn't immune to stuns so just pop Revenge whenever it comes up.Also used Intimidating Shout to buy some time.

A tip may be to pull him up the ledge at 48.19. The opposite side of the wall has a few more Elite stone dudes walking around so try to avoid that side.For an Elite Giant he wasn't really too hard actually.

Blizzard has a thing with Elite monsters. Some are fairly easy to down by about any class (eventhough its usually suggested in the questlog to have 2-3 ppl for it), while others are almost impossible to solo.

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Comment by Ambrosia

Easily soloable as a prot paladin. Use 5 stacks of Vengeance + Righteousness rotations and consecrate/holy shield the adds down at the end.

I imagine it's soloable as holy as well with Seal of Light.

Comment by Wildabeast41

Soloed as 70 Holy paladin. Only two bg epics, long fight, not tough when you get him alone... just judge seal of wisdom and keep SoW on you. Had Blessing of wisdom to keep consecration up, just healed through what he dealt. Easy fight. 7k health 8k mana

Comment by argonion

Killed him solo as a combat rogue. Just popped all cooldowns + haste potion & drums of battle.I got quite good gear(6/8 t6 and so on), so I don't know if it's doable for rogues with less gear than me

Comment by argonion

Killed him solo as a combat rogue. Just popped all cooldowns + haste potion & drums of battle.I got quite good gear(6/8 t6 and so on), so I don't know if it's doable for rogues with less gear than me

Comment by fatgonzo

He doesn't have a lot of hp. I killed him as a 18/0/43 rogue in pvp gear. Easy fight, popped the second (grhm) evasion when the ads started piling up and vanished when he died (causing ads to despawn)

Comment by colinnwx

Soloed as a 70 resto shaman in epic crafted ele gear and blues. Couldn't use elementals either as I'd blown both (and heroism) on the previous quest involving 4 similar elites.He has a nasty-ass knockback that throws you away from totems. Basically what's going to kill him is the lbolt spam, just nonstop hit it on him until he's down and don't care about the tiny fragment guys as the magma totem will probably not take them down all the way. when he's down, loot and run. Earth shield of course.I got outta there with 200hp : )

Comment by Bluesonicwave

Very easy to solo as a lvl70 BM hunter. Just send in pet to tank him & his adds. Heal pet, pop your CDs & he'll die very quickly. Feign Death if u pull aggro. Pop a frost trap in between in case u pull again. Boss\Adds should be dead by the time they cross the frost trap to get to u---if not, just kite 'em in the trap until they die.

Comment by Mairin

Enslaving Silroth at Forge Base: Gehenna still works as of 2.4.3, even accidently got another giant add (should have pulled him out of the area) and still killed Cragskaar before I looted and left the demon to his fate by running away =) Barely even healed him either, Silroth is just imba.

Comment by manticor

confirmed sucessful use of enslaving Silroth from Forge Base: Gehenna as warlock. I just enslaved him, mount the birdy, fly to Cragskaar while Silroth walk under me, so i wont need ro engage the other giants. dismount, send the demon, then after 4 seconds I just nuked till Cragskaar and adds dead. he DID agro me fast, but I used healthstone and no need for health pot. demon was the bit I needed to finish him. my bonus damage was 1500, 20% crit as destro lock.

Comment by sharkhunt

Was able to solo this on a level 70 holy priest. Use SW:P to kite Cragskaar to the Stormspire elevator. You'll need to reapply when the duration gets down to about 25% to keep him aggroed. Once he hits you there, the two guards will help you finish him off.

He has a knockback attack that helps you get some range back as long as you're moving in the right direction when he hits you. Use renew and PW:S to keep topped off on the run. Save your fear for the elevator area since you'll need to stand and fight there and might get two of his adds at the end.

Comment by venjur

Solo'd as a lvl 70 Fr Mage. Pulled him down the little ramp towards the netherstone, used pet/IB/CS repeat combo, just make sure you pull him away from the other giants. GL!

Comment by maxd

I soloed this as a 70 destro lock in full S2 PvP gear. Just watch his patrol route for a bit and figure out somewhere that he'll be nicely clear of adds; I found that the top of the hill was better, off to one of the sides.

Then I set my voidwalker on him, set up a couple of dots and then repeated Incinerate until he spawned his baby adds. Howl of Terror to get them out of your face and continue destroying the main guy. He died just as the adds returned to me; I sacrificed my voidwalker and started running up the hill. Got away with about 25% health, and a potion, health stone and soul stone for backup in case of emergencies.

Comment by Floaton

Soloed as a 68 resto druid. Easy to kite around, especially once u get him on the road.

Comment by robiscynikal

His adds will despawn after you kite him for a certain length. He is not immune to Feral Bash or Tauren Warstomp.

Comment by fahsky

Kiting still works. Just don't fail utterly like me by getting bumped onto the elevator, leaving the guards to kill him & leaving you unable to loot. -_-

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Comment by Deutschabyss

Meh, Mages shouldn't fear the immunities. Just pop Icy veins at about 50%, and alls good. Took him on at 70 in PvP gear. Died fairly quickly, then I just frost nova'd adds and popped invis to lose aggro. Loot and fly away

Comment by jeppe

does still work.

Comment by JerrySun

Solo'd this on my mage with Arcane Barrage, just ran away while spamming it, and blinked once. I'm sure it could be solo'd by anything that could outrun it, since the adds won't automatically come towards you if you're not in aggro range of them.

Comment by Ergates

Soloed this guy on two different chars.

L70 Retribution Paladin in standard quest gear. Bit harder since the Hotnerf to judgements seals and mana but still doable. Used food buff, and some Hallows End candy for extra bite.

Found him at 48, 19 and pulled him away to a quiet corner, against a wall to minimise the knockback attack.

Opened up with Crusader strike and kept up a standard Seal/Attack-Crusader Strike/Divine Storm rotation, and popping Consecration whenever it was available. First add spawns at 75%, and I stupidly didn't manage to stun him before it happened—so I concentrated on burning down the add before going back to the boss. Blew my Laying on of Hands, and went back to the rotation, concentrating fully on him and ignoring the other adds that spawned. Got him down without too much trouble, and blew a bubble-heal once the elite was down, and cleared up remaining two adds—probably could have managed without it, but I was being cautious.

A week later as a L70 BM Hunter, in standard quest and crafted gear. Much easier fight by far. Simply sent in my Corepuppy to tank, kept him healed, kited him away when adds spawned. No problems—not much else to tell.

Comment by extremities

very soloable at lvl 70. frost mage--the standard tricks. popped a water elemental, then kited him away from the water elemental. when i got a good ways away, hit ice block. he then ran all the way to the elemental while it hammered him, and then i canceled ice block and started hammering him myself while he ran all the way back to me. icy veins helps, too.

Comment by Rasztra

Easily solo-able by all classes. Just burn him down; he has less than 30k hp. PvP gear might help if you don't have alot of HP.

Comment by Panjuel

Just solo'd as 69 Arms warrior. Only 154 hp left at end. ZOINKS. Just threw up Ancient Draenei War Talisman, hit a few slams then pop'd Bladestorm. Gosh I love BS! All luck I know as the last lil' spawn missed its final blow on me, allowing me to kill. Whew

Comment by inconditus

Solo'd as a 69 Unholy Death Knight. Soloing him is cake, clearing the area is the hard part. I patted myself on the back after taking him only to be taken down by two adds. While I like to think I am epic, two 70 elites after a fight are a bit much. My only consolation is that one died in my suicide explosion.

Comment by Scillicet

Just soloed him as 69 tankadin. Two words: Dead. Easy. But then again, I am well geared :P. Only encountered a problem when I pulled an add, after about 4mins fighting Cragskaar, but he was almost dead anyway. Buffed with Righteous Fury and Blessing of Sanctuary. Kept up all my tankadin attacks, with Seal of Light and Judgements of Wisdom. Used Divine Shield at the start, to reduce damage, then Lay on Hands when the add came along and had spawned his lil friends :P.

Comment by hermandead

just soloed as a frost mage lvl 69 kind of hard ,he hit like a truck for cloth users needed to use cold snap and activate 2 times ice block

one tip for frost mages : he CANT be frozen with froze nova or the freeze ability of your elemental but he CAN be affected with deep freeze so if you have the finger of frost talent and trigger it activate deep freeze it can save your life and be careful with the other giants patroling the area

Comment by Skreenname

This was no harder than the Farahlon Giants as a 69 Warlock.I just used my Voidwalker to tank for a bit, then when he was nearly dead I used Fel domination to quicksummon my FelGuard and finished him off.IAs long as you ignore the mini Cragskaars and flee as soon as Cragskaar himself is dead, you should be fine.

Comment by Nico2000NL

Well, I killed Cragskaar, wasn't even that hard as a lv 69 Warlock. Even killed all the adds.But I only got some useless chrystals of him. He didn't drop the "farahlite core".Is this a glitch? (yes, I have the quest)...

Comment by eminenssi

It is very easy for mage. Just pop mirror images and back a little.

Comment by hesgone95

Solo'd as a 70 arms warrior. He was very easy, I took him down on the first try. Used my spells in this order:

Hitting the Motherlode

Description

Now that we've got a good baseline product, we're going to need something of higher quality. Certainly the farahlite we've gathered so far is nice, but I know there's better out there.

We'll have to get a sample directly from Cragskaar, the patriarch of the Farahlon giants! You should be able to find it among the other giants in the Netherstone area. It's got huge pieces of farahlite jutting from its back and that's exactly what we need. Fell the giant and collect a farahlite core from it.